Universal - Feb 18 2009

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Clues Answers
''Ben-Hur'' studio MGM
''If ___'' (Beatles song) IFELL
''Shhhh!'' HUSH
''So ___ me!'' SUE
Abner's size? LIL
Aspersion SLUR
Believers THEISTS
Bread for a gyro PITA
Breed of cattle ANGUS
Catchall category, briefly MISC
Certain musical group SESTET
Cheryl of ''Charlie's Angels'' LADD
Chinese philosopher ___ tzu LAO
Christmas carol start ADESTE
Class members PUPILS
Classic Paul Newman film HUD
Close forcefully SLAM
Comparative conjunction THAN
Davidic verse PSALM
Double agents MOLES
Early spring flowers TULIPS
Feeds, in a sty SLOPS
Firstborn ELDEST
Flies upward SOARS
Got off a horse, e.g. ALIT
Gray matter matter? IDEA
Hard-shelled critter BOXTURTLE
Home pages, e.g. SITES
Ice cream effect SWIRL
Ides utterance ETTU
In a crowd of AMID
Indian rhythmic pattern TALA
Insensible condition COMA
Irritate by rubbing ABRADE
It may hang on your conscience GUILT
It's fit to be tied ROPE
It's on the Missouri OMAHA
Knighted actor Guinness ALEC
Lies together? PACK
Clues Answers
Memorization method ROTE
Movie producer Ponti CARLO
Mrs. Lincoln's maiden name TODD
Not just a franchisee OWNER
Object of pagan worship IDOL
Old chap's diner order? FISHANDCHIPS
One of the Cartwrights HOSS
Optician's display RIMS
Overseas accord OUI
Pool stroke DOGPADDLE
Post-wedding title, often MRS
Prepare for publication EDIT
Proficient ADEPT
Purim month ADAR
Rather dedicated to news DAN
Rumor sources? MILLS
Run playfully ROMP
Sideshow attraction SNAKECHARMER
Skinflints' opposites SPENDERS
Small colonist ANT
Small whirlpools EDDIES
Soap unit BAR
Southwestern plateau MESA
Start of some aircraft carriers USS
Stop on a European tour, often MILAN
Support for the elderly? CANE
They have a plate in front of them CATCHERS
They're not who they pretend to be POSEURS
Titanic's undoing BERG
Tristan's love ISOLDE
Try to persuade URGE
Use, as energy EXPEND
Vanity plate in a two-car household, maybe HERS
Way up or down STEP
Wednesday was named after him ODIN
Whatchamacallit DOODAD
Where Charlie may ride forever, in song MTA
Word root STEM
Wranglers alternative LEE